| StorageSite | UCL SSEES |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | BTL/4/1 |
| Title | Folder Entitled 'Foreign Documents - 'The Last Secret'' |
| Date | 1941-1976 |
| Description | Newspaper articles and other published material collected by Bethell for his work 'The Last Secret'. Contents:
Chiefly photocopies of newspapers and articles published by Cossacks living in Western Europe and the USA. The articles relate in particular to descriptions of the handing over under the Yalta Agreement by the US and British occupation forces of Russian, especially Cossack and other Soviet soldiers who had fought in German units, as well as the possibility that German nationals were among those handed over.
Includes articles relating to the handover of prisoners and their families held by the US and British at Lienz, Austria and Dachau, Germany, which ended in the use of force by the British, suicides and deaths of prisoners. Additionally, some letters to Bethell from Cossack organisations regarding his work (dated 1974). |
| Extent | 1 folder |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| AccessConditions | The papers are available subject to the usual conditions of access to Archives and Manuscripts material, after the completion of a Reader's Undertaking. |
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